Latu, Hanigan, Clark, Gordon and Mason are the only ones who have improved their reputations this year in my opinion.
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Peter Fenwicke (45)
Gordon, Simone, Mason are my obvious picks. I liked Holloway's form last year before he was injured, I haven't seen that form come back yet, so he's a maybe depending on up-coming games.
Actually, I'll add Horwitz to my list.
I think Simone has gone backwards based on expectations from the NRC last year. He hasn't really been able to assert himself in the side and Horwitz has managed to push him out of the starting XV.
I think Simone has gone backwards based on expectations from the NRC last year. He hasn't really been able to assert himself in the side and Horwitz has managed to push him out of the starting XV.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
Latu? By playing less?
I agree. His form of late off the bench has been OK. I know rotation is the new black, but with the team performing like a 1984 Trabant, I'd have the best 9 starting thanks. Gordon, that is. No problem with Phipps on the bench, as a replacement I can't see much between Lucas and him. They both have their problems of various sorts.
He has played most games and I'd argue has been amongst our best two players with Hooper.
When playing, and certainly in the earlier rounds, he was the form Aus hooker. He hasn't been on the list of oxygen thieves for mine.
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Johnnie Wallace (23)
Yeh there's not many to choose from. Maybe it's just fanciful thinking but I want players coming into the squad to be bitter, twisted, focussed, bat shit crazy, driven madmen. Players that have their eyes on higher prizes, players that I want to watch. The most recent Australian player like that for me, is probably Sean McMahon. The bitterness cupboard is so bare. It's like they are spoilt or something
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
Thats probably fair.
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Paul McLean (56)
Hmm, unfortunately some of those proven performers that aren't on that list aren't performing - but they stop.
Some of the names above haven't really had the chance to prove themselves over 80 minutes.
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Tony Shaw (54)
The trend is the same at the Reds, and these crowd figures for the Tahs are scary bad (in terms of both the Tahs financial and commercial situation and in terms of fan adherence levels):
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...e-crowd-in-clubs-history-20170426-gvsnz4.html
Once we've culled a Super team, everything will improve though, won't it.
A serious note too btw: the admission in this article that some historical low Tahs' crowd figures have been highly overstated and were now, later, subject to significant downwards revision.
I have long suspected this to be true for Reds' crowds at Suncorp when I was sure the crowd was, say, less than 15,000 and worse, but the reported figure from the media and QRU was a crazily overstated 20,000 or so.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...e-crowd-in-clubs-history-20170426-gvsnz4.html
Once we've culled a Super team, everything will improve though, won't it.
A serious note too btw: the admission in this article that some historical low Tahs' crowd figures have been highly overstated and were now, later, subject to significant downwards revision.
I have long suspected this to be true for Reds' crowds at Suncorp when I was sure the crowd was, say, less than 15,000 and worse, but the reported figure from the media and QRU was a crazily overstated 20,000 or so.
Whilst the downward trend is certainly bad, there are a couple of things that need to be considered in terms of how much it affects things commercially.
Stadium members at the SFS don't really benefit the Waratahs financially to my knowledge. Maybe they add value when you're signing a new stadium deal as to what incentives are offered for playing at the location.
The other are Waratahs members. Of course you need them to sign up against next year but if they've paid their membership for the year, you have their money for the year regardless of whether they turn up to the game or not.
In my group of 7 members, we've had between 3 and 5 of us there for each home game. It's certainly the lowest attendance we've ever had and partly due to 4 of us having children under 1 but has also been impacted substantially by the on field performance. I am fairly certain all 7 of us will sign up again next year.
Clearly it is easier to sell sponsorship with higher crowd numbers though so even though a person who has paid for a ticket and doesn't show doesn't cause you to lose money in that situation, them not being there impacts your ability to generate revenue elsewhere.
Alan Jones calls for Daryl Gibson to be sacked, says Israel Folau is ...
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Billy Sheehan (19)
From my experience the difference for these teams to be profitable or at least not totally in the shit is the value generated by the walk up crowd . That and any potential revenue you can generate from hosting a home final are really the only variables you are playing with financially once the season kicks off .
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Tony Shaw (54)
Good points br.
Noting as well that crowd levels over the season and ditto viewership numbers on Foxtel are leading indicators positively or negatively for down-the-line Super team sponsorship (a) interest as a whole in even bidding for a sponsorship and (b) sponsorship $ offer levels as sponsors generally justify their investments on eyeball counts to their brand on jersey display or elsewhere.
Thats what the kids say !!
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Tony Shaw (54)
The mystery of the Tahs declared 'crowd numbers' is helpfully being unravelled by Payto and Pando tonight, and I post the telling extract below from their News Corp article (my added emphasis). (Let me say at the top: I strongly suspect the identical 'unfortunate difficulty' in the QRU's similar issues in getting to the right Reds' crowd numbers is likely identical to that conveyed re the Tahs below.)
Obviously it's a pure coincdience that these 'calculation problems' occurred when both the Tahs and Reds were both experiencing downwards crowd trends.
A mere statistical aberration too that the applicable RUs' crowds estimates turned out to be materially higher than they really were later discovered to be in a number of cases (one such is quoted below when the negative deviance was 24%, just a trifle really).
It just happened in this funny old way that all these difficulties occurred and in the Tahs' case the problems were so significant that for a time they even stopped attempting to post any crowd numbers at all. It was a very complex problem to solve clearly, the challenge of excluding catering staff and such like.
Obviously it's a pure coincdience that these 'calculation problems' occurred when both the Tahs and Reds were both experiencing downwards crowd trends.
A mere statistical aberration too that the applicable RUs' crowds estimates turned out to be materially higher than they really were later discovered to be in a number of cases (one such is quoted below when the negative deviance was 24%, just a trifle really).
It just happened in this funny old way that all these difficulties occurred and in the Tahs' case the problems were so significant that for a time they even stopped attempting to post any crowd numbers at all. It was a very complex problem to solve clearly, the challenge of excluding catering staff and such like.
"TAHS PLAY NUMBERS GAME
THERE were some raised eyebrows this week when the Waratahs claimed that last week’s crowd of 10,555 was not their lowest in history, but that it was in fact in 2012 against the Hurricanes.
The official crowd from that match was listed as 13,372 but Tahs officials say Ticketek numbers for the game say it was 10,196.
We tracked down the Waratahs chief executive at the time, Jason Allen - who now works in England - to find if they’d been fudging numbers on his watch.
“For a long time, years and years before I arrived, we’d counted numbers for locked in members, those who had commitment as stadium members, and we had problems for a long time with actual crowd numbers so that’s why we stopped publishing them,” Allen told us.
While members who may not have attended were counted then, there are still major issues with the way they’re done now, with catering staff and security among those who are potentially tallied as spectators.
Whatever way it’s done, it’s fair to assume that the crowd figures you see from clubs are not an accurate reflection of the number of people who have purchased tickets to watch games."
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Ken Catchpole (46)
I call bullwhip on that.
Are we seriously being told that no one can take the turnstile turnover and subtract staff rostered for the day to get the spectator number?
Even the unpaid work experience intern could do that.
AND his/her primary school aged younger brother could be given a coke and hot dog to sit and count the spectators as the game unfolds.
It sounds like a whole lot of obfuscation to cover up real facts.
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David Codey (61)
Don't think staff entrance has a turnstile...
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